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¿Cómo compiten las pymes en los mercados internacionales? : análisis de un clúster local con vocación exportadora

Estrella Ramón, Antonia Maria; Jiménez Castillo, David; … - In: Investigaciones europeas de Dirección y Economía de … 18 (2012) 1, pp. 87-99

This research examines whether firms with different levels of export intensity differ with respect to the competitive elements that sustain their competitiveness in foreign markets, as well as on marketing strategies implemented in their commercial activity abroad. To this end, we examine a...

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The impact of sectoral minimum wage laws on employment, wages, and hours of work in South Africa

Bhorat, Haroon; Kanbur, Ravi; Mayet, Natasha - In: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 2 (2013), pp. 1-27

income as a result of the law. -- minimum wage ; South Africa ; wage ; employment ; hours of work …This paper attempts to investigate the impact of sectoral wage laws in South Africa. Specifically, we examine the … impact of minimum wage laws promulgated in the Retail, Domestic work, Forestry, Security, and Taxi sectors using 15 waves of …

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Mental health : the new frontier for labour economics

Layard, Richard - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 2 (2013), pp. 1-16

affects earnings and educational success. But, most strikingly, it affects employment and physical health. In advanced …

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A VAR analysis of FDI and wages : the Romania's case

Mutascu, Mihai Ioan; Fleischer, Anne-Marie - In: International journal of economic sciences and applied … 3 (2010) 2, pp. 41-56

According to Lall (1997), the FDI are strongly interconnected with a series of variables, such as: economic conditions (markets, natural resources, competitiveness), host country policies (macro policies, private sector, trade and industry, FDI policies), as well as MNE strategy (risk...

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Responsiveness of trade flows to changes in exchange rate and relative prices : evidence from Nigeria

Oyinlola, M. Abimbola; Adeniyi, Oluwatosin; Omisakin, … - In: International journal of economic sciences and applied … 3 (2010) 2, pp. 123-141

This paper examines the long-run and short-run impacts of exchange rate and price changes on trade flows in Nigeria using exports and imports functions. The bounds testing (ARDL) approach to cointegration is applied on a quarterly data from 1980 Q1 to 2007 Q4. The results indicate that in both...

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NAFTA's trade effects : new evidence with a gravity model

Montenegro, Claudio E.; Soloaga, Isidro - In: Estudios de economía 33 (2006) 1, pp. 45-63

This paper estimates econometrically the impact of NAFTA on US-Mexico and US-third countries (groups of countries) trade flows. Using a traditional gravity-equation framework, we try to see to what extent the bilateral trade flows between the US and different countries differ from a gravity-type...

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Discriminación arancelaria y decisiones de localización de las empresas

Méndez Naya, José - In: Estudios de economía 33 (2006) 1, pp. 5-19

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the effects of economic integration among countries on firms investment decisions when such decisions are taken strategically. It is shown that, in this context, the traditional "tariff jumping" argument is not always applicable and that localisation...

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EU-Ölembargo gegen Iran wenig wirksam

Engerer, Hella; Horn, Manfred - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 79 (2012) 22, pp. 12-19

Die Anrainerstaaten des Persischen Golfs sind mit etwa 40 Prozent der weltweiten Exporte die bei weitem wichtigste Anbietergruppe auf dem Weltrohölmarkt. Nach Europa gehen etwa 13 Prozent der Rohölausfuhren der Golfstaaten und sechs Prozent der Ausfuhren an Erdölprodukten. Von den Golfstaaten...

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Financial development, international trade and economic growth : empirical evidence from Pakistan

Shaheen, Safana; Awan, Masood Sarwar; Waqas, Muhammad; … - In: Romanian journal of fiscal policy : RJFP 2 (2011) 2, pp. 11-19

The study utilizes the Autoregressive-distributed lag (ARDL) approach for cointegration and Granger causality test, to explore the long run equilibrium relationship and the possible direction of causality between international trade, financial development and economic growth for the Pakistan...

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Consistencia de indicadores de especialización en el comercio internacional : plicación al caso de la mantequilla en Argentina y Uruguay

Depetris Guiguet, Edith; García Arancibia, Rodrigo; … - In: Revista de métodos cuantitativos para la economía y … 9 (2010), pp. 85-105

This study aims to evaluate, in terms of their cardinal, ordinal, and dichotomy consistency, five alternative comercial specialization indicators: a Balassa symmetric index version; a Chi-Squared Index; and the Relative Trade Advantage Index, all these three based on revealed comparative...

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